How does this happen? Chick-fil-A branded as anti-gay?

[regexcellent]

The Flames are mediocre. The Oilers just plain suck.

[Asher]

Hey Asher, Flyers > Flames

Philly fans show what is wrong with America.

[regexcellent]

Vancouver fans show what is wrong with Canada.

[regexcellent]

Rochester Americans

[Asher]

Vancouver fans show what is wrong with Canada.

No, just BC. Entitled douchebag hipsters.

[regexcellent]

So if Vancouver doesn't represent Canada (and I certainly hope it doesn't), don't you think maybe Philly doesn't represent America?

[Asher]

Nope. It still does. Loud, obnoxious, ruthless. It's just how most of the world describes Americans.

[DaShi]

Actually, Chicago is trying to do just that -- check my link.

Now it's just getting sad.

[Wiglaf]

[Wiglaf]

Can someone close this thread? Antoine has settled the debate. Thanks.

[Ben Kenobi]

In Canada this is a fundamentally incorrect statement if the reasons for refusing to serve the person are due to race, religion or sexual orientation

And if the businessman simply does not like them?

Macdonalds would commit a human rights violation each and every time it refused to sell a big Mac to a Christian.

Nonsense. If I go to McDonalds and make a giant ass out of myself, and Mickey D's refuses to serve me, whether I was or was not a Christian would be immaterial.

[Ben Kenobi]

If I went to a Texas church to rant about the evil pedophile nature of Christians, would the police be restricting my freedom of speech when they remove me from the premises?

Is this before or after they scrape what's left of you off the pavement?

[Ben Kenobi]

Back in the seventies it wasn't uncommon to see shops in the UK with signs that read 'No Blacks, No Irish'. Is that really something you would find acceptable in modern America?

I wouldn't have a problem with it. If a business doesn't want black customers then they should be free to state just that. Same as if they didn't want white customers, Christian customers, etc.

[Ben Kenobi]

Oh and incidentally it wasn't at ground zero. That was what is commonly known as a right wing lie.

Which is why that mosque just happened to be constructed there and not on the other side of Manhattan. Odd coincidence that.

[MrFun]

We were talking about Canadian hate-speech laws, not idiotic GOP statesmen. I said suffering these idiots to speak does not, by itself, render said speech acceptable, because it's well-known that we let most any loathsome troll express whatever vile sentiments he pleases unless he poses a perfectly clear danger to others. Are you asking me if I want it to be legal to gag politicians who say stupid stuff like that?

Yeah, I mean it's not like Hitler used words and speeches to help convince Germans that Jews were inhuman, leading to that little thing called the Holocaust . . .

um, wait a minute . . .